Within the six towns that comprise Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem is known as the Mother Town, so perhaps it should be unsurprising that the local club, Port Vale, have made the mother of all messes of a season that promised so much.
After spending several days in Tomotley as guests of Ostenaco, Timberlake and McCormack proceeded to the Overhill mother town of Chota, where a number of chiefs had gathered in the town's large councilhouse.
His mother, in town for the competition, offered another take.
Her mother, in town for a few days, was similarly unimpressed.
Her father was an insurance agent and her mother the town's first city councilwoman.
As a young girl living in Poland, she and her mother left town for a vacation while her father stayed behind to work (he was going to join them later).
"We've known Blanche all her life, and we love her," one woman explained delicately while Mrs. Lincoln's mother, a town fixture beloved for her pimento cheese sandwiches and homemade cookies, ate at a nearby table.
On a recent Sunday, brunch was a family affair, with Clark's boyfriend, a friendly hunk with a Tom of Finland moustache, playing host, and Willis's mother, in town from Ohio, waiting tables.
Early in the book, Flora's mother leaves town, not without first saying to Theresa, "If my husband tries to fuck you while I'm gone, don't be frightened.
A skeptical Emma returns Henry to his adopted mother, the town Mayor, Regina (Parrilla), who is really the Evil Queen.
Tami Morris feared the worst after the Camp fire wiped out her mother's town, but a HuffPost article helped her track her down.
